The Deputy Commander for NATO’s war in Libya Rear Admiral Russell Harding has rejected Thursday’s reports by the rebels. The rebels had claimed NATO had apologized for bombing a column of rebel tanks in Ajdabiya.
“I’m not apologizing,” Harding insisted. He also claimed NATO had no idea the Libyan rebels even had tanks. Other officials suggested that the bombing was essentially the rebels’ fault, and that the situation is “confusing.”
This is the exact opposite of the story told by rebel General Yunis, who claimed on Thursday that the rebels had in fact informed NATO about the tank movement, and had that message acknowledged before the attack.
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that NATO “regrets” the deaths of the rebel forces, but officials were quick to insist this was totally different from an actual apology for the killings. It is the second major “friendly fire” incident since the war began.
You know, I sort of wondered how it might be that Libyan rebels had tanks. Oh yeah. However, golly if'n those screwy dang rebels don't want to gets themselves blown to wet sticky pieces well, they need to stay out the way of NATO's doing the thing that NATO is awfully good at. You know, dropping world class armaments all over 'God's green earth' and damn the consequences, torpedoes are next. Oh yes and "Rear Admiral Russell Harding" would be a world class schmuck. I'm not apologizing either.
Come on Skulz…it takes years and years of extensive exclusive training for people like Russell to get to the level of world class schmuck. Given that, for him to deny "apologizing" (the uppers don't apologize) is well within his level of training and to be expected. It would look bad on his CV and would surely kill any chance of an OBE.
These idiots are so full of their own importance, like a swollen toad. I can imagine Harding's thinking "I'll never apologize to these untermenschen." What he doesn't know is that these "subhumans" are kicking the hell out of western armies all over the Middle East.
In Yugoslavia NATO always bombed the wrong side , so whats the discussion about . NATO should go home and leave the Arabs to finish thier own war .
NATO: "Come on! When we drop them your supposed to run , dammit!"